On This Day November 2, Rohit Sharma smashed slowest List A double hundred (209): Interesting stats from that knock

158 balls taken by Rohit Sharma to complete his double-century — slowest among all 7 double hundreds in ODIs. Not only it was slowest ODI double hundred but it was also the slowest in List A cricket.

Fastest 200 in List A cricket

BF

Player

Match

Venue

Season

117

Travis Head

South Australia v Western Australia

Hurstville Oval, Sydney

2015/16

123

Ben Duckett

England Lions v Sri Lanka A

Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence, Canterbury

2016

126

Jamie How

Central Districts v Northern Districts

Seddon Park, Hamilton

2012/13

132

Shikhar Dhawan

India A v South Africa A

LC de Villiers Oval, Pretoria

2013

134

Ally Brown

Surrey v Glamorgan

The AMP Oval, Kennington

2002

137

Ravi Bopara

Essex v Leicestershire

Grace Road, Leicester

2008

138

Chris Gayle

West Indies v Zimbabwe

Manuka Oval, Canberra

2014/15

140

Virender Sehwag

India v West Indies

Holkar Stadium, Indore

2011/12

142

Ben Dunk

Tasmania v Queensland

North Sydney Oval, Sydney

2014/15

147

Sachin Tendulkar

India v South Africa

Captain Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior

2009/10

151

Phil Hughes

Australia A v South Africa A

Marrara Cricket Ground, Darwin

2014

151

Rohit Sharma

India v Sri Lanka

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

2014/15

152

Martin Guptill

New Zealand v West Indies

Westpac Stadium, Wellington

2014/15

156

Rohit Sharma

India v Australia

M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

2013/14

16 sixes hit by Rohit in that innings — the joint most in an ODI along with AB de Villiers and Chris Gayle and joint 2nd most in a List A match. The record is of 17 sixes by Gerrie Snyman in 2007-08.

144 runs accumulated through fours and sixes by Rohit in that knock — 4th most by any batsman in an ODI through boundaries after Shane Watson (150), Martin Guptill (162) and Rohit himself (186).

71 balls taken by Rohit to reach his fifty in that match. Later on, Rohit’s next three fifties came in lesser balls with lesser dots.

Runs

Balls

Dots

1s/2s/3s

4s

6s

1st 50

71

39

24/4/0

3

1

2nd 50

43

22

13/2/0

1

5

3rd 50

26

9

7/2/0

5

3

Post 151

18

4

3/1/0

3

7

Total (209)

158

74

47/9/0

12

16

1 run scored by Rohit against Aaron Finch’s bowling — the least run collected by him against any bowler in that match, though he faced only 5 balls. On the other hand, Rohit scored the most against Xavier Doherty — 57 off 34.

Bowler

Balls

Runs

Run Rate

Dots

4s/ 6s

Xavier Doherty

34

57

10.05

11

2/5

Clint McKay

28

48

10.28

11

2/5

James Faulkner

42

46

6.57

23

4/2

Nathan Coulter-Nile

28

32

6.85

14

4/1

Glenn Maxwell

11

22

12

4

0/3

Shane Watson

10

3

1.8

7

0/0

Aaron Finch

5

1

1.2

4

0/0

491 runs scored by Rohit in that series against Australia with the help of this double hundred. This became the highest by a batsman in a bilateral ODI series. Previous best was of 478 runs by George Bailey.